Researchers have “cloaked” a three-dimensional object, making it invisible from all angles, for the first time.

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Most of the high-profile invisibility cloaking efforts have focused on the engineering of “metamaterials” - modifying materials to have properties that cannot be found in nature.

The modifications allow metamaterials to guide and channel light in unusual ways - specifically, to make the light rays arrive as if they had not passed over or been reflected by a cloaked object.